Last night, we had the pleasure to welcome Christian Buckley at the Vancouver SharePoint User Group (@VanSPUG) event, which is hosted monthly at Colligo’s offices. Christian is an Office 365/SharePoint MVP, IT consultant, sought-after speaker and prolific author. He gave a fantastic presentation to a packed room of local IT pros on the status of …

Join us on October 30, 2014 at 8AM PDT / 11AM EDT for a webinar featuring Alan Pelz-Sharpe of 451 Research. Why attend? Enterprise collaboration is in crisis. Employees continue to use non-sanctioned systems, bring their own devices and rely on email to share files. The results are costly, inefficient, and fraught with security risks. Discover …

The content management market is transforming in response to social, mobile and cloud services (1). Highly personalized services are replacing the static Content Management Interfaces (CMI). Content is directed at users based on personal preferences. Wearable Internet enabled devices are showing up alongside tablets and phones as the list of multi-channel sources of created content begin …

Last week, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a webinar with our partner Gig Werks to discuss how Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) organizations can enhance collaboration and mitigate risk with email and document management in SharePoint. Thank you to everyone who attended, I appreciated your comments. For those of you who couldn’t attend, click here to …

Join Colligo and partner Gig Werks for a complimentary webcast on how Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) organizations can Enhance Collaboration and Mitigate Risk with Email and Document Management in SharePoint. In organizations governed by rising costs, slim margins and the threat of litigation, keeping complex, multi-party projects on-time and on-budget requires up-to-the minute collaboration. An …

As an article from KM World notes, organizations are experiencing unprecedented growth in information generation, leaving many struggling to manage all of that data. But the sheer volume of data isn’t the biggest challenge for most organizations; it’s that the data is so fragmented. Learn how to make categorizing and finding data easier.

Lean management, a strategy that focuses on reducing inefficiency and boosting value, originated in the manufacturing world. However, as an article from CMSWire explains, it’s applicable in many areas, including information governance, which is an important area that often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves.

A recent white paper, The ROI Benefits of Business Critical SharePoint authored by Microsoft and Pique Solutions, an independent research and analysis firm, defined a business critical system as one that: “Extends and automates important business processes across, and even beyond, organizational boundaries by exposing line of business (LOB) data, and allowing it to be …

Why do people turn to consumer tools like Dropbox for work when their company has an enterprise content management (ECM) system? An article from CMSWire.com offers some insights, especially the notion of “suite overkill.” The key is to tailor the full features of an ECM platform like SharePoint and only implement what users require.

Most organizations move to SharePoint to get away from local file shares and take advantage of more structured data. This only happens if there’s metadata, which is one of SharePoint’s strengths. The pros and cons of SharePoint and Dropbox — including structure and findability — are discussed in an article from CMSWire.